Attention Quote by Linda Stone

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like…

— Joss Whedon

“Continuous Partial Attention involves an artificial sense of constant crisis, of living in a 24/7, always-on world. It contributes to feeling stressed, overwhelmed, overstimulated,…

— Sharon Salzberg

We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in…

— Norman Doidge

“continuous partial attention,”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

I am not a multi-tasker. When I do one thing, I fully concentrate on it and leave the other thing aside.

— Shenaz Treasury

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a…

— Karen Finerman

The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a…

— John Medina

“When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from…

— Michael Harris

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

— Marilyn vos Savant

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

— Susan Cain

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

— Deepak Chopra